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.The fourth wall refers to the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a prosceniumtheatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.^The fourth wall is imaginary and it is the wall that starts right there at the end of the stage.

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^The "Fourth Wall" is the imaginary wall that LITERALLY separates the performance from the audience.

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^The fourth wall is generally found in the presence of a stage or theatre, where theres an imaginary/fictional wall separating the audience from the world that's playing out on the stage.

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[1][2].The term, which was made explicit by Denis Diderot and spread in nineteenth century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism,[3] is also extended to refer to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience.^"The term applies to the boundary between any fictional setting and its audience.

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^Found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall "While the origin of the term cannot be confirmed, the concept is generally presumed to have begun in the twentieth century with the advent of theatrical realism."

.The presence of the fourth wall is an established convention of fiction and drama, which has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic or comedic effect.^The naturalistic theatre's fourth wall made it possible for the actors to behave onstage as they would in a real room in real life, and the audience could observe the fiction "as if" they were observing real life [ 5 ].

.When this boundary is "broken", for example by an actor onstage speaking to the audience directly, or doing the same through the camera in a film or television program, it is called "breaking the fourth wall."^Why do we always have to break through the fourth wall?"

.Although prominent in comedy, it is also used in dramatic presentations as well: Eugene O'Neill's play Strange Interlude is one example where a character speaks his innermost thoughts directly to the viewer.^In the comics, this is a character that talks TO his voice-over thought panels in addition to using them.

^For example, if one rich person wanted to use the company helicopter to aerate the ponds on his properties, and the other rich people on his board of directors thought this a sensible thing to do, then he could go ahead and do it without any serious repercussions.

.The acceptance of the transparency of the fourth wall is part of the suspension of disbelief between a fictional work and an audience, allowing them to enjoy the fiction as if they were observing real events.^This wall is transparent, so that the audience may voyeuristically observe the events of the play, entrenched in their suspension of disbelief, understanding and enjoying their position as invisible onlooker.

^The naturalistic theatre's fourth wall made it possible for the actors to behave onstage as they would in a real room in real life, and the audience could observe the fiction "as if" they were observing real life [ 5 ].

[2].Although the critic Vincent Canby described it in 1987 as "that invisible screen that forever separates the audience from the stage,"[5]postmodern art forms frequently either do away with it entirely, or make use of various framing devices to manipulate it in order to emphasize or de-emphasize certain aspects of the production, according to the artistic desires of the work's creator.^Because the stage would generally have a wall at the back and both sides, this concept involves the actors becoming involved with the audience who are at the front, which can be considered an invisible wall, making it the fourth one.

[6].This conception led to a series of workshops at the Globe Theatre in 2004 designed to help break the fifth wall.^The idea and concept for the club comes from @Blackdove aka Wild Thyme who has also designed the interior (with the kind help of Doctor Temporis).

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^When it comes to theatre, when an actor looks directly at the screen or references the audience in ANY way, they are "breaking the fourth wall".

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[7].The term has also been used to refer to "that semi-porous membrane that stands between individual audience members during a shared experience".[8] In media, the television set has been described metaphorically as a fifth wall because of how it allows a person to see beyond the traditional four walls of a room.^"The term applies to the boundary between any fictional setting and its audience.

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^The invention of claim 2 wherein said frame comprises a pair of vertical frame members disposed along each end of said wall panel and a pair of horizontal frame members extending between and connected with said vertical frame members.

^When moderator took timeout, the wall moved from the traditional theatre position, where the wall was transparent for the audience, to a totally new position where the wall functioned as a soundproof and opaque wall between the patient/actress on the one side and all the others in the room on the other side (Figure 2 ).

[9][10].A different usage of the term has described the fifth wall as the screen on which images are projected in shadow theatre.^Location 1 , the traditional theatre location, is the only part of the training model identical to the naturalistic theatre's use of the fourth wall as described by Jullien.